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Passionately articulate on Quebec, Lévesque is intensely guarded in his private life. By temperament he is a loner with few close friends. Separated for the past six years from his wife, he lavishes attention on his three grown children. Born in the bucolic Gaspé Peninsula region of Quebec, Lévesque left law school in 1943 to serve with the U.S. Office of War Information as a European radio correspondent. In the 1950s he moved on to television and speedily became the most popular news commentator in Quebec. Lévesque's pouchy eyes, nervous mannerisms...
...been circuitous. Readers who like the raging energy and fantasy of Henderson the Rain King (1959) do not always thrill to the hothouse introspection of Herzog (1964). Those who can get along with the serious, well-mannered author of Dangling Man (1944) and The Victim (1947) are likely to gasp at the wisecracking Borscht Belt comic who hoofs onstage during parts of Humboldt's Gift. The picaresque hero of The Adventures of Augie March (1953) is a brash New World kid, while a wise Old World man fills the title role of Mr. Sammler's Planet...
Harvard's classic last gasp came with 1:21 left, when Winn took a short pass from Kubacki and raced across the field for a 70-yard score. Too little, too late, too bad. Brown ran out the clock in its own territory, and the fate was sealed. Harvard will now chase after a share of the Ivy title as Brown moves headlong into a two-game finale that could very well bring the first football championship ever into Providence's waiting hands...
...while everybody is beating up on everybody else, Harvard and Yale prance into The Game with the championship on the line, right? Possible obstacles: Brown over Harvard (gasp) and/or Princeton over Yale (gulp). In which case, The Game decides The Four-Way Tie. Everything is normal...
...closing minutes, Crimson goalie Fred Herold was forced to make two saves on shots from directly in front of the net, but that was the end of UMass's final gasp...